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Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland / Collected Entirely from Oral Sources — John Gregorson Campbell

Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland / Collected Entirely from Oral Sources

John Gregorson Campbell

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 321 pages

This collection of essays by John Gregorson Campbell records superstitions of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, gathered entirely from oral sources. It presents traditional beliefs, customs, and stories from Highland and island communities. It is worth listening to for a vivid glimpse of folk life and oral tradition in Scotland.

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SUPERSTITIONS OF THE

HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF

SCOTLAND

PUBLISHED BY

JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW,

Publishers to the University.

MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON AND NEW YORK.

London,

Simpkin, Hamilton and Co.

Cambridge,

Macmillan and Bowes.

Edinburgh,

Douglas and Foulis.

MCM.

Superstitions
of the
Highlands & Islands of Scotland
Collected entirely from Oral Sources
By
John Gregorson Campbell
Minister of Tiree
Glasgow
James MacLehose and Sons
Publishers to the University
1900
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO.

EDITOR’S NOTE.

TƒƗǪ volume is the result of many years’ labour by the late Rev. JLjƒƿ

GǡŧƄLjǡǪLjƿ CĵƽǙœŧƯƯ, while minister of Tiree during the years 1861

—to 1891.

Much of the material was already collected before Mr. J. F.

Campbell of Islay published his Popular Tales of the West Highlands in

1860, and readers of Lord Archibald Campbell’s volumes on Waifs and

Strays of Celtic Tradition are already acquainted with the valuable work contributed to that series by the Rev. J. Gregorson Campbell.

It is hoped that this volume on the Superstitions of the Scottish

Highlands, full as it is of racy stories, may throw fresh light on an extremely interesting subject.

The MS. of a corresponding work by the same author on Witchcraft and Second-Sight in the West Highlands, is in the editor’s hands, and in the event of the present work meeting with the reception which the editor thinks it deserves, the volume on Witchcraft will be published next year.

Mrs. Wallace, Hynish, Tiree, the author’s sister, has kindly read the proofs.

August, 1900.

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Contents

  1. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland Collected entirely from Oral Sources
  2. EDITOR’S NOTE.
  3. PREFACE.
  4. CONTENTS
  5. CHAPTER I. THE FAIRIES.1
  6. CHAPTER II. TALES ILLUSTRATIVE OF FAIRY SUPERSTITION.
  7. CHAPTER III. TUTELARY BEINGS.
  8. CHAPTER IV. THE URISK, THE BLUE MEN, AND THE MERMAID.
  9. CHAPTER V. THE WATER-HORSE (Each Uisge).
  10. CHAPTER VI. SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT ANIMALS.
  11. CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS SUPERSTITIONS.
  12. CHAPTER VIII. AUGURY.68
  13. CHAPTER IX. PREMONITIONS AND DIVINATION.
  14. CHAPTER X. DREAMS AND PROPHECIES.
  15. CHAPTER XI. IMPRECATIONS, SPELLS, AND THE BLACK ART.
  16. CHAPTER XII. THE DEVIL.
  17. FOOTNOTES
  18. INDEX. (The figures refer to the page.)
  19. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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